Word: mombasa
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...bazaars and squalid Negro quarter sped an ugly rumor: all Negro nursemaids had been ordered by the Mau Mau to murder white babies in their charge. The whites, hearing the rumor, took no chances. By train, by road and plane, hundreds of white children were sent to friends in Mombasa, 300 miles away on the Kenya coast. It was the tensest week since the Mau Mau emergency began. Nairobi's 16,000 whites were frankly awaiting a big Mau Mau attack. Probable Mau Mau Dday: April 8, when the court verdict on London-educated Jomo Kenyatta, alleged leader...
Striking from the great morose forests of the Aberdare Range, Mau Mau terrorists last week hacked an elderly Briton to pieces as he sat in his evening tub. A quick chop of the pangas and all his fingers were gone. In the port of Mombasa, supposedly awed by the guns of a British cruiser, a British marine was stabbed...
...night last week, and set down the ist Battalion (800 men) of Britain's Lancashire Fusiliers. From adjoining Tanganyika and Uganda hurried a battalion and two companies of the King's African Rifles. H.M.S. Kenya, an 8,000-ton cruiser, put a detachment of marines ashore at Mombasa, Kenya's only modern harbor...
...Whisker. In Mombasa, Kenya, Africa, a team of Sikhs, whose religion requires them to wear full beards, won a tug-of-war contest, solemnly accepted the prize: individual bowls of shaving soap...
Africa was really hard-hit, suffering the worst drought in a century. In many parts of South Africa, once high corn and grazing land looked, after the 14-month drought, like scorched earth. At Mombasa, the game warden for the Kenya coast reported some 5,000 elephants stampeding toward the coast in search of water...